Joe Wilkinson’s Home Movies: Why Hollywood loves a big bang

Like a kid with a box of matches. And $60 million …

Big Ben? The Eifel Tower? The Statue of Liberty? Is nothing sacred?

Well, not in Tinsel Town anyway…

There’s nothing Hollywood loves more blowing stuff up. Especially when that stuff is rather important to the people watching.

That’s why in ‘Olympus Has Fallen’, out this week, Antoine Fuqua is going all ‘Independence Day’ on the White House. Ramming it full with pesky terrorists, macho one-liners, and waiting for the resulting “boom”.

So, what is Hollywood’s preoccupation with pyrotechnics all about? We gave Joe a few fireworks and put him on the case.

Going out with a bang, here’s the last episode in the series of Home movies...